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Surrealist Art

SURREALIST STYLE

In the wake of World War I’s ravaging of Europe, artists delved into the unconscious mind to confront and grapple with this reality. Poet and critic André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement who authored the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, called this approach “a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism.” Surrealist art emerged in the 1920s with dreamlike and uncanny imagery guided by a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing, which can be likened to a stream of consciousness, to channel psychological experiences.

Although Surrealism was a groundbreaking approach for European art, its practitioners were inspired by Indigenous art and ancient mysticism for reenvisioning how sculptures, paintings, prints, performance art and more could respond to the unsettled world around them.

Surrealist artists were also informed by the Dada movement, which originated in 1916 Zurich and embraced absurdity over the logic that had propelled modernity into violence. Some of the Surrealists had witnessed this firsthand, such as Max Ernst, who served in the trenches during World War I, and Salvador Dalí, whose otherworldly paintings and other work responded to the dawning civil war in Spain.

Other key artists associated with the revolutionary art and literary movement included Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, all of whom had a distinct perspective on reimagining reality and freeing the unconscious mind from the conventions and restrictions of rational thought. Pablo Picasso showed some of his works in “La Peinture Surréaliste” — the first collective exhibition of Surrealist painting — which opened at Paris’s Galerie Pierre in November of 1925. (Although Magritte is best known as one of the visual Surrealist movement’s most talented practitioners, his famous 1943 painting, The Fifth Season, can be interpreted as a formal break from Surrealism.)

The outbreak of World War II led many in the movement to flee Europe for the Americas, further spreading Surrealism abroad. Generations of modern and contemporary artists were subsequently influenced by the richly symbolic and unearthly imagery of Surrealism, from Joseph Cornell to Arshile Gorky.

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Style: Surrealist
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Women - Drawing by Guelfo Bianchini - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Women is an original watercolor drawing realized by Guelfo Bianchini in 1961. The artwork is hand signed and daed by the artist. Includes frame: 68....
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Watercolor

Surrealist Figurative Sculpture, "Siren"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original surrealist figurative sculpture made from wood by San Diego artist, Debbie Korbel. Its dimensions are 72" x 66" x 42". A...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Driftwood

Surrealist composition by José Gerson n°2 - Gouache on paper 42x62 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Pastel, Gouache, Carbon Pencil

Instantly (woman tennis player vintage surrealist oil painting monochrome grey)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Superbe original painting on canvas depicting a vintage scene of a young woman tennis player in action. The actual color of this piece is a monochrome of...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Urban Empire # 6
Located in Singapore, SG
My works are juxtaposition of imperialist era and inevitable advancement of modern science with enlightenment of knowledge, which in course of time overthrown the previous regime. Th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Paper, Acrylic, Pigment

Surrealist Doll Composition
By Jerry Peil
Located in Surfside, FL
From the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Collection The Ruttenbergs are longtime art lovers who have collected abstract expressionist paintings, African art, sculpture, graphics, old watches and photographs-lots and lots of photographs. They started collecting them in the 1960s when the medium was still the stepchild of the arts. They kept collecting until they had more than 3,000 prints, 99 of which are in the Art Institute exhibit, ``The Intuitive Eye: Photographs from the Collection of David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg.`` The show encompasses the entire history of photography with black-and-white and color prints from every genre, It includes street photography by Walker Evans and Garry Winogrand, glamour shots by Edward Steichen and Richard Avedon, nudes by Robert Mapplethorpe and Nicholas Muray...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Photographic Paper

Vivat LVII
Located in Loveland, CO
Viva la LVII (Long Live the '57) by Gary Alsum Bronze 6.5" x 12.5" x 6" ed/75, number 1 in stock Shipping price includes the custom packing necessary for fine art. A new body of wor...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Bronze

Fish (Comanche Native American surrealist painting)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Fish (Native American, 1950-1995). Man and Spirit Wolf, ca. 1975-80. Gouache on Arches rag paper, Sheet measures 23 x 30 inches. Image measures 22 x 29 inches. Signed lower left. Excellent condition. Unframed. An example of Hood's work from the 1970's, paintings which tend to be about nature and mysticism, and possess a certain innocence. Hood's mature work from the early 1980's onward contains unambiguous depictions of Native American culture and traditional themes. A member of the Comanche Indian tribe, Larry Hood...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Gouache, Rag Paper

"Rome", Oleg Turchin, Surrealism, Figurative, 58x63 in, Baroque Hat Series, Oil
Located in Dallas, TX
"Rome" by Oleg Turchin is a Figurative Surrealism original oil on canvas painting measuring 58x63 in. This surrealist painting has a beautiful strong woman from Rome in silver armor ...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Salvador Dali - from Biblia Sacra - Offset Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Biblia Sacra was published in 1969 by Rizzoli of Rome - SIGNATURE: printed in the image - EDITION: 1499 - SIZE : 19 x 13 3/4" - REFERENCES: Michler and Lopsinge...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Evolution: Build A Hope
Located in Singapore, SG
Humans are never satisfied. They always want to advance and innovate. In terms of transportation, from era to era, the development has been very rapid, whether it be by land, sea, ai...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

The Sound of the Changing Season - Surreal Rural Scene, Hyper-realistic
Located in Chicago, IL
A violinist, playing a melancholy tune, helps conjure up the change of season from fall to winter on Halloween, as represented by the black cat. The cat is holding the Tempest in the Teapot kettle. The raven, who is bursting forth from the steam of this tempest, represents the cold, dark and harsh winter to come. Juxtaposing and altering unrelated natural objects with the machinations of man to create a scene of an impossible surreal world, the viewer enters the mind of artist Christopher Klein...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Oil, Panel

And it Came to Pass : collage work of art
Located in New York, NY
Collage work of art by contemporary artist Jessica Rechner. This work of art is a collage made raw silk, acrylic, watercolor, and pencil on canvas. The artist uses these various mat...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Silk, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil

"Hinges, " Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ifeoluwa Alade ( Nigeria based) "Hinges" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a female model and a male model with colorful butterflies and flowers ebbing between t...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media

"Opulence 6" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Aiden Kringen's (US based) "Opulence 6" is an original handmade oil painting that depicts a figure with her face in profile view surrounded with gold hued shapes and patterns About the Artist: A kaleidoscopic fantasia—crystalline planes floating in space, nestling together like immaculate puzzle pieces—abstract nebulae, human figures and faces enveloped in swirling fields or particles of energy—these number among the images evoked by the hauntingly enigmatic paintings of artist Aiden Kringen. Within this worldview a mysterious network of interlocking planes becomes visible to the beholder: mystical fields of unknown substance revealed as the building blocks of our bodies and semblances, surrounding, cocooning, perhaps even protecting us. It is a vision verging on the mystical, which Kringen portrays through a distinctive style: a fractured, cubistic mode of conscious- ness in which multiple dimensions or perspectives assimilate into an ecstatic whole. The artist deploys this style in opulent and seductive portraits as well as abstract tableaux whose optical signature is magnified by compositional dynamism and deeply layered surfaces. Born in Los Angeles in 1992, Kringen lived variously in the American West and Mexico—Sebastopol, Jalisco, Portland, Flagstaff—before settling in the hill- and vineyard-dotted environs of Sonoma, County, where he is now based. In these very different environments, each of which possesses a uniquely picturesque natural beauty, the artist began from an early age to develop his aesthetic approach. He has always had a keen eye for detail, grounded in a gift for looking closely at the human experience. “I’ve always been interested in observing people,” he recalls, “and in the details of how we interact with one another.” He put this natural ability to task when he began working on illustration and graphic-design projects while in high school. From his mother, an artist and graphic designer, he learned the fundamentals of composition and typography, the nuances of positive and negative space and the relationships between them. Using sheets of Letracet—a system for transfer- ring typeface—proved particularly instrumental in developing a methodology for layering and collage, which continue to inform his works on canvas and paper. He learned old-school tech- niques, hands-on and mechanical, in keeping with a Bauhaus-like appreciation for perfectionism, integrity, and hard work. Kringen began painting at 14. Then as now, drawing was central to his approach. He studied vintage anatomy...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Oil, Canvas, Acrylic

Rabbit in Hat, Serigraph by Igor Galanin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Igor Galanin Title: Rabbit in Hat Date: Circa 1985 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100, AP 30 Paper Size: 40.5 x 30 in...
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1980s Surrealist Art

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Screen

'Family Portrait', AIC, Paris Salon d'Automne, Art Deco American Woman Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899–1950) and created circa 1935. This painter, illustrator, muralist, lithographe...
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1930s Surrealist Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Fall
Located in Denver, CO
Acrylic paint on raw canvas.
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Maiden and Spirit Wolf (Comanche Native American surrealist painting)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Larry Hood (Native American, 1950-1995). Maiden and Spirit Wolf, ca. 1975-80. Gouache on Arches rag paper, Sheet measures 23 x 30 inches. Image measures 22 ...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Gouache, Rag Paper

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Published Benincasa Carmine. Edizioni SEAT, Torino, Italy. Offset directly from the original plates. Limited edition. This is not hand signed or numbered. Signature in the printing p...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Lithograph, Offset

Animal Kingdom, Zebra, Buffalo, Lion, Giraffe, Elephant, Monkey, Tiger, Gorilla
Located in Miami, FL
Peaceable Kingdom features more than 60 aminal portraits by famous illustrator Richard C. Hess. Impeccably rendered and designed. Signed lower center-left. R. Hess. His illustrati...
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1980s Surrealist Art

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Acrylic

"Junk Food (Pizza)" Contemporary Surrealist Still Life of an Inedible Pizza
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful surrealist still life painting by contemporary Texas artist Henry David Potwin. The work features an opened pizza box with a variety of inedible toppings including items suc...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Oil, Canvas

Autumn - Tempera Painting by Antoine Mayo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Autumn is an original tempera painting on paper, realized by the artist Antoine Mayo, art name of Malliarakis (1905-1990) Hand-Signed on the lower right margin In very good condition. Antoine Mayo (Port Said, Egypt 1905 - Seine Port1990). Greek painter naturalized French citizen, active from 1924 in France, was a Surrealist artist and a polyhedric artist: painter, decorator, costume, designer, illustrator and much more. His father was Greek and his mother French, friend of Prévert and Desnos, he is also known for his work as a decorator and costume designer of masterpieces such as Les Enfants du Paradis, Golden helmet or Hiroshima my love.
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Tempera

Quartet
Located in Nashville, TN
Quartet depicts a mix of circus performers and somewhat recognizable real-world musicians—Dolly Parton and a combination of Tom Petty and Kurt Cobain. Charles Keiger...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Isolation III, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Guigen Zha paints red lotus flowers under the shining sun. Square blocks of gradient color fill the fragmented scene. He paints...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Oil

Art Deco Paris - Eiffel tower Place du Trocadéro Statues " Slave to Love" Gold
Located in Miami, FL
Reminiscent of the dreamy elegance of a bygone era, Mitchell Funk transforms a tourist location into the quintessence of timeless Paris chic. To achieve this the photographer had to rid the Trocadero of toursits. Next came choosing the right camera angle and lighting the scene dramatically. The photo recalls Brian Ferry...
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1990s Surrealist Art

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Japan Poster - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro -2022
Located in Roma, IT
Japan Poster is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized in 2020 by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Edition of 10. Hand-signed and n...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Digital

Art Brut : Totem - Original lithograph, Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Thomas Gleb (Yehouda Chaim Kalman, called) Art Brut, Totem, 1960 Original Lithograph Signed in pencil Dated (19)60 On vellum 25 x 16.5 cm (c. 10 x 6.5 in)...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

The Sommeliers
Located in Loveland, CO
"The Sommeliers" by Jack Hill Bas Relief, hand-painted cast resin mounted on wood 12x10" each, set of 4 Whimsical wall art for the wine lovers in your life...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Resin, Wood, Acrylic

Birth, 1940s Modernist Surrealist Abstract Figural Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Birth, semi-abstract, modernist, somewhat surrealist, vintage 1943 painting of a female figure giving birth by Colorado artist, Charles Ragland Bunnell, painted during the artist's B...
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1940s Surrealist Art

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Watercolor

Riot
Located in Nashville, TN
Alison Underwood's work evokes various emotions of desires as her artwork proves to display the ideas of temptation and anticipation. These profound feelings are demonstrated in the ...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Oil Crayon

Pastoral Symphony, Surrealist Screenprint by Israel Rubinstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Israel Rubinstein (1944 - ) Date: 1980 Screenprint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 350 Image Size: 35.5 x 25 inches Size: 47 x 3...
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1980s Surrealist Art

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Screen

SHARK PEOPLE
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Astian Rey "SHARK PEOPLE"
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Enamel

Serenity
Located in Loveland, CO
Serenity by Gary Alsum Abstract Bronze Deer, limited edition of 50, number 1 available. 9.5x4.5x3.5", includes wood base ABOUT THE ARTIST: Taking the knowledge passed on from artists such as Fritz White, Glenna Goodacre...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Bronze

Surrealist Landscape, Mountain with Nude Woman - Perls Gallery
Located in Miami, FL
A nude white woman gazes out and over a Giorgio de Chirico like surrealist landscape to an overly dramatic sunset with stylized orange rays. In the center of the composition is a cu...
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1940s Surrealist Art

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Masonite, Oil

Much Ado About Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet - Original Signed Etching
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI Much Ado About Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet, 1968 Original etching Handsigned Justified EA On Japan paper 33.5 x 25 cm (c. 13 x 10 inch) REFERENCES : - Catalog ra...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Athletic Male Nude on Endless Surreal Arizona Road
Located in Miami, FL
Athletic male nude about to launch out onto the open road of life. Shot on location Near Taos, New Mexico, 4 of an edition of 15, Signed, dated and n...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink

Garden in Blue Sky
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate inde...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Linen, Oil

'Surrealistic Nude Figures, ' by Leonard Kaplan, Painting, c. 1960s
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 20" x 14" painting in a surrealist style by artist Leonard Kaplan depicts three nude figures crowded together, sitting and standing with a white bird obscured by the dark shadows. Predominant colors are red, orange, black, and cream. The painting is on paper and masonite framed behind glass in a silver metal frame. Leonard Kalan is known for surrealism and figure paintings. He died in California in 2008. Leonard was born January 15, 1922 in New York City and won a scholarship in 1940 to study at the Art Student League under Reginald Marsh and William Pair. He won an art scholarship to New York University in the late 1930's. He studied art at the Henry Street...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Masonite, Chalk, Acrylic, Archival Paper

If Dogs Had Arms, colorful hand painted etching one of a kind
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Etching and watercolor, ideal for special gift
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Watercolor

'Breakfast'. Surrealist Acrylic on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist contemporary tablescape, acrylic on canvas by Scottish artist Frank McLean Docherty R.S.W. Signed and dated bottom left. This piece is wonder...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

"The Carnival is Over", Igor Samsonov, Oil on Canvas, Surrealist, Figures, 48x54
Located in Dallas, TX
"The Carnival is Over: Afternoon" by Igor Samsonov is an Oil on Canvas painting measuring 47.5x54.5 and is a prime colorful example of figurative surrealism at its finest. His deep b...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Oil, Canvas

"La Bestia" Contemporary Surrealist Border Train Commentary Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful surrealist portrait painting by contemporary Texas artist Henry David Potwin. The work features a crowded group of children riding on a monstrous train flanked by skeletons ...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Futura Skateboard Deck (Futura 2000)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Futura Skateboard Deck: Medium: Silkscreen on Maplewood Skateboard Deck. Year: 2021. Dimensions: 31 x 8 inches (38.1 x 22.9 cm). In original shrink wrap & box; excellent condition. Printed signature from an edition of unknown. Published by Futura Laboratories. Futura 2000...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Wood, Screen

Rhinoceros - Pate de verre sculpture, Signed - Daum 1972
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) and Daum Rhinoceros (Chippendale Rhinocerotype) Original two-tone yellow and opalescent brown pate de verre Edited and handcrafted by the Daum crystal glas...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Glass

Presidential office
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
This picture is included in the series of artworks "Pathos of the Bureaucracy". 100x100cm / oil on canvas/ 2018 The picture is ready to hang (edges ...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Infernal Machine" Contemporary Surrealist Biomechanical Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful surrealist painting by contemporary Texas artist Henry David Potwin. The work features a crowded scene of humanized machinery connected by conveyor belts. Signed in front lo...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Ba Ba Ba Ma Tri dom
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Animal Kingdom, Zebra, Buffalo, Lion, Giraffe, Elephant, Monkey, Tiger, Gorilla
Located in Miami, FL
Peaceable Kingdom features more than 60 aminal portraits by famous illustrator Richard C. Hess. Impeccably rendered and designed. Signed lower center-left. R. Hess. His illustrations appeared on the covers of Time, TV Guide, New York, and Esquire magazines...
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1980s Surrealist Art

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Acrylic

Red Starfish - ceramic tile - 1954
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI (after) Red Starfish Handpainted ceramic tile Signed in the pattern 8 x 8" (20x20cm) Edited in 1954 by Maurice Duchin and hand crafted in atelier MPG under the control...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Ceramic

Huge French Surrealist Fantasy Oil Painting Floating Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Josyne Gallet Title: Floating Figure Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed Size: canvas: 45.5 x 28.75 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Oil

'3D Surrealist Mixed Media Portrait, ' by Jeffrey Kronsnoble, Mixed Media
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 15.5" x 13.25" mixed media female portrait by artist Jeffrey Kronsnoble features the black and white profile of a women with a circular ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Mixed Media, Graphite

A Cup of Coffee, 2020
Located in ATLANTA, GA
"Alexei Ravski unites landscape painting with the art of the surreal in his dramatic, large-format compositions. Meticulous in technique, they are marked by a striking use of perspe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Oil

The Couple II, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Here is a portrait from Central Africa of a happy couple. This painting will ship from the USA. Sales benefit only the artist and his family in civil war Cameroon. :: Painting :...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Acrylic

"Man with Cup, " Ceramic Figure
Located in Chicago, IL
Although this whimsical sculpture by Allan Winkler has the look of outsider art, this ceramic work stems from the art school-trained artist’s interest in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Ceramic, Acrylic

Brazilian Flower- Acrylic painting by Frida & Raul - 2019
Located in Roma, IT
Brazilian flowers is a beauty painting with frame by the Italian artists Frida & Raul in 2019. It is realized by mixed three-dimensional technique with acrylic, metal mesh, wood, plastic, concrete...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Acrylic

Central Panel, from: Triptych 1974-1977
Located in London, GB
FRANCIS BACON 1909-1992 Dublin 1909-1992 Madrid (Irish/British) Title: Central Panel, from: Triptych 1974-1977, 1981 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching and Aquatint in Colours on Wove Paper Paper size: 64.8 x 50 cm. / 25.5 x 19.7 in. Image size: 38.8 x 29.5 cm. / 19.3 x 11.5 in. Additional Information: This etching and aquatint in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Francis Bacon" in the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 99, in the lower left margin. The work was printed in a limited edition of 99 signed and numbered impressions with an additional 15 Hors Commerce [out of trade] impressions and 15 artist’s proofs. It was printed and published by Polígrafa, Barcelona in 1981. It is based on the painting of the same title. Note: Tryptic 1974-1977 is one of Bacon's finest triptychs. It was painted by Bacon between May and June 1974 and was made in response to the tragic death of his lover George Dyer in 1971. It was the last work the artist made before a major retrospective of his work held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1974. The exhibition formed the culmination of this important survey of Bacon's career from the late 1960s onwards and was immediately recognised as both a major landmark and also perhaps a turning point in Bacon's career. From 1971, Francis Bacon had been preoccupied with Dyer and the tragic manner of his suicide. Triptych 1974-77 also borrows several elements from the three earlier so-called 'Black' triptychs (In memory of George Dyer, 1971, Triptych August 1972 and Triptych May-June 1973). In each of these great three-panel paintings, the figure of Dyer is presented on the threshold of entering a dark void, either in the form of his hotel room, or silhouetted against a sequence of black rectangles. At the bottom of this central panel on a pale blue, purple and black curved continuation of this arena-like circle, there originally appeared a bizarre prone and bespectacled slug-like figure. Based on one of Edward Muybridge...
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1980s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Aquatint

1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Bright Green Garden' Fantasy Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art

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Oil

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Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, and Leonor Fini. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Lithograph and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Surrealist art, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1 and tops out at $1,450,000, while the average work sells for $1,426.

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